Minnesota

Colleagues have grown accustomed to Lee’s online persona, mostly brushing it off. That is, until this past week, after his posts about the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband incensed fellow senators.

House GOP leadership said it’s “on all of us” to bring down the temperature following shootings at a protest in Salt Lake City and politically-motivated attacks in Minnesota.

The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states over the next six months to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country.

Ice Castles, the company behind the temporary art installations, is now in Utah, Minnesota, two locations in Colorado and New Hampshire. The company has expanded since its first installation in 2011.

Democrats are enthusiastic about a Harris/Walz ticket and believe the duo has what it takes to defeat Donald Trump in November.

In a year that saw polarized policymaking around transgender Americans, MPR News and KUER teamed up to tell the story of how gender-affirming care bans and care shields are affecting access in Minnesota and Utah.